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The YES movement needs to get its mojo back
On Wednesday it will be 10 years since the referendum on whether Scotland should be an independent country. I woke that morning believing it was going to happen. In the south Edinburgh Yes campaign centre the mood was buoyant. We knew by lunchtime the turnout was unprecedented. By teatime, people were coming back saying it …
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We get enough blame without looking for it.
I have too much time on my hands. That’ll explain why I read the Programme for Government all the way through. I guess one of a tiny minority of our citizens who did. I thought it might be useful to go to the original source in search of a strategic reassessment of how the Scottish …
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Can we go far enough fast enough?
The mildly irascible Robin McAlpine berates himself for Cassandra-like tendencies as he predicts what’s in store for the SNP. His eve of conference scene-setter is indeed laden with warnings of doom. Not for the first time he exaggerates to make his point. And not for the first time there’s something in what he says. So, …
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